Chantal Machabée (born September 4, 1964) is a Canadian sports journalist, television presenter, and the current vice president of communication for the Montreal Canadiens.
[2] At 17, she volunteered as a statistician for the Patriotes football team at Cégep de Saint-Laurent while also working as a sports journalist for the Ville St-Laurent weekly, Les Nouvelles/The News, and the now-defunct Dimanche-Matin.
In 1985, she wrote for La Presse canadienne and worked as a sports reporter for the NTR radio network, notably on the show Sportivement vôtre at CKSH (AM), hosted by Gilles Péloquin.
“Denis Ricard from CBC appreciated my work and arranged a screen test for me.” She was subsequently assigned to cover the Canadian Football League and junior hockey.
[2] Later in 1986, she joined the TVA network in Quebec City, where she was assigned to cover the Nordiques and host the show Ça, c'est du sport!
[3] In 2004, Chantal became the first woman to host the Montreal Canadiens’ hockey broadcasts on RDS, which she co-hosted with her good friend Jacques Demers.
[9][10] In 2011, Chantal and a few of her colleagues from RDS traveled to Kandahar, Afghanistan, to meet Canadian soldiers and produce television reports.
[17] In 2024, Machabée received the National Assembly’s Medal of Honour[18] In 2018, her biography titled Chantal Machabée—Désavantage numérique, written by one of her former colleagues Guillaume Lefrançois, was published.